Showing posts with label 2009 Elections. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2009 Elections. Show all posts

Congress wins the Indian elections; BJP loses

NEW DELHI – The ruling Congress party swept to a resounding victory Saturday in India's mammoth national elections, defying expectations as it brushed aside the Hindu nationalist opposition BJP.

With today's outcome, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, 77, who recently underwent a heart bypass surgery, is expected to retain his post for a second term and lead the nation of over one billion people with a more stable government.

The Left, comprising Communist Party of India (CPI) and Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM), both suffered severe defeats in their strongholds in Kerala and West Bengal.

Over 700 million voters cast their votes in the election, which was held in the five phases, from April 16 and ending on May 13

Google India Elections Center - India Elections 2009

More than 700 million eligible voters in India will over the course of four weeks have the opportunity to participate in the largest democratic event in human history — India's 15th general election. There are many websites offering "India Elections 2009" news & video service, Online TV and podcasting in all Indian languages - HIndi, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, Gujarati, Bengali, Punjabi.

Google India announces "Google India Elections Center" to follow the elections with personalized map, news, quotes and more. "Google India Elections Centre" is available in English and in Hindi.

People from across India can use the center to do the following:
  • Confirm their voter registration status
  • Discover their polling location
  • View their constituency on a map
  • Consume relevant election-related news, blogs, videos, and quotations
  • Evaluate the status of development in their constituency across a range of indicators
  • Learn about the background of their Member of Parliament and this year's candidates
With still more features to be added during the election, we hope the site will be an ongoing resource for analysis, governance, and democracy in India after the election.

India Elections 2009 - electing member of Parliament

The 15th Lok Sabha Election of India is scheduled to be held by the month of May 2009. The maximum strength of Lok Sabha or the lower house of the Indian Parliament is 552, comprising 530 members who represent the States, up to 20 members who stand for the Union Territories and not more than 2 members from the Anglo-Indian Community who are nominated by the President.

The India Election 2009 will be contested on new constituency boundaries for the first time in over 30 years and the change was implemented on the findings of the Delimitation Commission.

Some of the major changes include merging of areas of various constituencies to eradicate population inconsistencies between different seats and reservation and de-reservation of seats. But, for the time being, the Government of India has postponed delimitation in the states of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Jharkhand, Manipur and Nagaland.

The National Democratic Alliance comprising the BJP and its allies officially elected L. K. Advani as their candidate for Prime Ministership for general election 2009 on January 23rd, 2008.

The Indian National Congress (INC) and its allies haven't officially announced their candidate for Prime Ministership for India Election 2009;

Maharashtra Navnirmana Sene (MNS) website launced

Maharashtra Navnirman Sena launched official website, www.manase.org. The MNS website www.manase.org is available in both marathi and english versions.

MNS Students wing, Maharashtra Navnirman Vidyarthi Sena website is at www.mnvsena.org


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